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Lady Windermere's Fan: a charming and funny spectacle
The Vaudeville Theatre’s Oscar Wilde season, a quartet of his best-known plays, opened with Kathy...
23 Mar, 2018 | By Ed Whitfield

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Long Day's Journey Into Night "one of the great plays"
There’s a maudlin intensity to Eugene O’Neill’s New England classic. Did anyone ever better layer...
2 Mar, 2018 | By Ed Whitfield

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The Divide
Once, according to legend, there was a six-hour version of The Divide, Alan Ayckbourn’s belated e...
9 Feb, 2018 | By Ed Whitfield

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Othello
If the pubescent audience I sat with at the Ambassador Theatre is anything to go by, the National...
13 Dec, 2017 | By Ed Whitfield

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The Red Lion
The setting of The Red Lion, the changing room of a non-league football club, recalls the 70's Pl...
24 Nov, 2017 | By Ed Whitfield